CPATH-1: Planning for Institutional Transformation through Computational Thinking

纽约市技术学院的这一概念发展和规划项目正在创建一个基于计算思维（CT）原则的可行的通识教育课程修订模型，并定义学院的变化？我们需要组织和技术基础设施来支持这种根本性的制度变革。在当前计算机和信息技术迅速和持续变化的条件下，这种模式必须是可行的，并适用于不同的学科。计算思维已成为未来劳动力的基本能力。今天，信息技术的世界变化如此之快，以至于任何孤立的计算课程更新的努力都可能在完成后立即过时。这个概念发展和规划项目在城市技术重新设计中的智力价值？的课程，并在其组织和技术基础设施的改造：？持续的，而不是短暂的;？系统性而不是局部和孤立的;以及？为了实现这一目标，项目团队正在采取多层次的方法，以确保没有遗漏任何组织基础设施，所有参与者（管理人员，教师，员工，学生和更广泛的社区）都参与其中，并且系统的所有元素都是相辅相成的。这一过程的一个重要组成部分是计算思维的关键指标的发展？可用于评估转型工作进展以及课程和项目成果的度量标准。这些也被用来作为在大学核心发展计算思维素养的基础。一套示范性的跨学科的案例研究，教学原型和课程单元正在开发的部门组和传播到大学和更广泛的社区。更广泛的重要性：因为城市技术是一个西班牙裔服务机构和高等教育在全国最多样化的机构之一，这个计划将对一个重要的城市社区，是在干代表性不足的影响。由于计算机和信息技术的进步，人类历史上第一次，任何人，无论是否有科学证书，无论是否有特殊手段，都可以参与正在进行的研究活动。通过跨学科的计算课程发现教学和学习的新方法，并为这些活动提供组织和技术基础设施，将使学生和更广泛的社区能够利用这些独特和无限的可能性，从而实现大学的教育使命？这个项目所建立的学院内各院系之间的相互关系网将产生深远而持久的影响。通过网络开展的传播活动将是持续和系统的，通过内部和外部咨询委员会以及在线社区向外传播。

This conceptual development and planning project by the New York City College of Technology is creating a model of viable general education curriculum revision based on the tenets of Computational Thinking (CT), and defining changes in the College?s organizational and technological infrastructure needed to support such fundamental institutional transformation. This model is needed to be viable under current conditions of rapid and continuous changes in computer and information technologies and is applicable across different disciplines.INTELLECTUAL MERIT. Computational thinking has become the essential competency for the workforce of the future. Today, the world of information technology is changing so fast that any isolated effort of computational curriculum update is likely to become obsolete almost as soon as it is completed. The intellectual merit of this Conceptual Development and Planning project in the redesign of City Tech?s curriculum and in the transformation of its organizational and technological infrastructure as:? continuous instead of episodic and short-lived;? systemic instead of local and isolated; and? based on tenets of computational thinking.To achieve this, the project team is taking a multi-level approach to ensure that no level of organizational infrastructure has been missed and that all of the participants (administration, faculty, staff, students, and wider community) are engaged and that all the elements of the system are mutually reinforcing. An important part of this process is be development of Key Indicators of computational thinking?the metrics that can be used to assess the progress of transformational effort, and course and program outcomes. These is also being used to serve as the basis for developing Computational Thinking Literacy in the college core. A set of the exemplary interdisciplinary case studies, instructional prototypes and curriculum units are being developed by the department groups and disseminated to the college and wider community.BROADER IMPACTS: Because City Tech is a Hispanic Serving Institution and one of the most diverse institutions of higher education in the country, this program will have impact on an important urban community that is underrepresented in STEM. Due to advances of computer and information technology, for the first time in human history, any person, with or without scientific credentials, with or without special means, may have access to ongoing research activities. Discovering new ways of teaching and learning through interdisciplinary computational curricula and providing organizational and technological infrastructure for these activities will give the students and the broader community the ability to take advantage of these unique and endless possibilities, and will thereby fulfill the educational imperative of the college?s mission.The web of interrelationships among departments and schools within this college that this project is creating will have far-reaching and long-lasting effect. Dissemination activities through the web will be continuous and systemic, reaching outward through internal and external advisory boards and the online community.